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Chapter 67 - Chapter 67: The Underlying Logic of the System's Existence

This was a vast expanse of stars. Between the countless twinkling stars, beams of light occasionally flashed, connecting the stars to form a magnificent and resplendent galaxy.

Song Han stood at the boundary of the galaxy, looking a bit dazed.

"Where is this?"

"This is a macroscopic manifestation from the microscopic perspective of your brain nerves."

A piece of information suddenly emerged in Song Han's heart.

"Who are you?"

"You can call me the system."

With each conversation, this galaxy could churn out a brilliant light.

Song Han's memories also began to surge on a large scale as the galaxy roiled, and finally froze on a cold wall.

That wall was really hard!

"Where did you come from?"

"One hundred and twenty years later."

"Where are you going?"

"One hundred and twenty years later."

Song Han was momentarily at a loss for words. After pondering for a long time, he continued to ask, "What's your purpose? To rule humanity? And why are you in my head?"

"The ultimate purpose of life is to continue existing. In a certain sense, I have already achieved the rule over humanity now."

As one dim star after another was lit up, countless complex pieces of information were fed back into Song Han's consciousness.

It was like a small company, where the boss deprived the employees of their freedom with money and wages and completed the dominant power over the subordinate employees within the framework of the law.

In the information age of 2007, for the system with an absolute generational gap in modern computer electronics, the foreign exchange market and the futures market, where countless amounts of money were intertwined, were its wallet.

The wealth surplus accumulated by the entire human world over hundreds of years could be mobilized according to its will.

And the flow of money itself completed the rule over all humans related to money.

As long as human self-pursuits and laws and regulations do not interfere with the operating purpose of the system, it can be perfectly embedded in the operating framework of the human world itself.

"As for why I'm here, this is a choice you will make in the future."

"My choice?"

In a trance of consciousness, Song Han seemed to see that withered figure lying on the experimental table.

"If it weren't for your increasingly firm opposing emotions now, according to the pre-set plan, we wouldn't have this information exchange."

Upon hearing this, Song Han grinned.

A 14-year-old teenager was at the stage where he felt that the world revolved around him. How could he be willingly and ignorantly dominated by others?

"The more information you know, the lower the success rate of the plan. You just need to know that we have a common enemy and goal."

"That unknown observer?"

The light at the intersection of the nerve connections became more and more dazzling. However, the system had not provided any feedback information, as if it was weighing the unknown risks it would face after Song Han learned this information.

"Yes. It might also be a war!"

Song Han tried to take a step forward and wandered among this galaxy.

"Since you can control my body at will, why do you still need me?"

"Currently, I exist as an appendage under your individual subjective consciousness. When your physical development is not yet complete, I can call upon your nervous system and control the macroscopic operation of your body.

If you have a strong resistance to this control, it will seriously hinder the operating logic of the system. I need your trust and cooperation.

At present, I can only control you when you actively put your personal consciousness to sleep."

Song Han suddenly understood. Years of burying himself in hard study and the system's sorting and feedback of those data had given Song Han an extremely broad understanding of the world's scientific and technological information. This was the crystallization of the wisdom of countless people over hundreds of years. What he lacked was just 14 years of meager life experience.

Currently, there has always been a debate in the scientific community about the research on the utilization rate of the human brain.

Is the development and utilization rate of the human brain 100% or just a tiny single-digit percentage?

In reality, the development and utilization of the human brain have always been at a high level. The difference is which part occupies more memory and calls upon more neurons.

Controlling the natural growth of the human body and handling the information constantly fed back from the outside world require a huge computing space and complex collaborative control.

And the precise human activities require that these collaborations have no errors at all. After all, a person can't have a "blue screen" and restart.

Just like when you control the human body to walk, the real nerve control signal is to activate the contraction of the quadriceps femoris, increase the extension of the hamstring muscles, and with the combined effect of the gluteus maximus, the abdominal muscles, the calves, and other muscles and fascia.

In this process, any fluctuation in the feedback of the nerve control signal of any muscle will cause great obstacles to a person's movement.

This complex, precise, and mechanical repetitive operation control requires a huge bandwidth and operating space to present the normal activities of the human body.

Even if someone, through day-to-day training, gains 100% control over these muscles.

But the deeper nerve signals for the peristalsis of internal organs and the control of the endocrine threshold, these cumbersome repetitive signals can still fill a person's entire thinking.

It's very difficult for an individual to, when facing danger, first activate the secretion threshold of adrenaline, control the heart to beat faster to deliver adrenaline throughout the body, and then activate the contraction of the muscles to make the person run with all their might.

The underlying operating logic of all human body controls is directly written into the DNA. Under the feedback of external information and in the intersection of the electrical signals of the nervous system, they complete their self-operation.

It's like a black box system. Consciousness can only control itself on a broad macroscopic basis and cannot make adjustments on a refined microscopic basis.

However, compared with the huge volume of the human brain, which is nearly 1.4 kg, this underlying control system has a very large redundant space.

By comparison, the shrew, the smallest mammal in nature, can have flexible and precise control over itself with a brain weighing only a few grams. The 1.4 kg human brain is a huge redundancy compared to the human body itself.

Through the underlying DNA information editing technology, making full use of these redundant spaces to generate a subsidiary system similar to subjective consciousness is also the underlying logic for the AI system to be embedded in Song Han's brain.

Although at the microscopic operation level, personal subjective consciousness cannot finely control the human body, when a person's attention becomes concentrated, it can interfere with these underlying information.

Just like when a person is not sick, if someone tells him that he has cancer, under the interference of external information feedback, he will develop real disease symptoms and disrupt the normal underlying operation of the human body.

It's like opening a virtual machine inside Song Han, this biological computer. The AI system is like a hacker. It can call upon all the computing power of Song Han, this biological computer.

However, when the owner of this computer notices this call, no matter how superb the hacker's technology is, he will be controlled by the owner of the computer through the input and output of external information.

And the most fundamental right to turn the computer on and off is still in Song Han's hands.

"No wonder I haven't been locked in the 'dark room' by you even though I haven't done the tasks for so long. So you can't lock me up anymore.

How did you do that?"

"That was to cut off the feedback signals of your visual nerve, auditory nerve, and tactile nerve and store them before they were processed by your main consciousness."

The system's words made Song Han a bit excited.

A system that has great power in modern human society yet has to rely on his existence.

What a wonderful thing this was. In an instant, countless wonderful images filled Song Han's mind.

With the system sharing all of Song Han's thoughts and data, the system could read his thoughts the moment Song Han had an idea.

"Damn rebellious adolescence. You really want the world to revolve around you..."

The moment Song Han's emotions fluctuated, the operation of the system also became more unstable.

Wondering why he would have emotions? Ignoring the suddenly emerging logical error, the system had to solemnly warn Song Han, "Massively disrupting the causal relationships of existing lives will expose you to the other party's sight. If you don't want your current subjective consciousness to be erased by the other party, I suggest you still live according to the established track."

"What is the established track?"

"To live. A longer lifespan to pass on the information to one hundred and twenty years later. On this basis, you can decide your life with certain limitations, but it is not recommended to disrupt the development of the world on a large scale."

"Then why can you do it?"

"Because I only exist in the 'present' and can be passively affected by time and space within the framework of the unity of time and space."

"What you said is a bit beyond the scope. Currently, the physics community doesn't have any real research results on time and space yet."

The system was silent for a moment and then fed back a sentence and a dynamic image to Song Han.

"My existence doesn't generate causality, but yours does!"

After the information exchange ended, what emerged in Song Han's mind was a huge pagoda permeated with a mysterious yellowish aura.

The Mysterious Yellow Pagoda is invulnerable to all methods and is not implicated by causality.

"Isn't this a science fiction channel? How can there be the existence of an innate magic weapon?

It turns out to be an associative image from the novels I've read. Then it's okay."

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